Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MUSIC FROM SHORE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS


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First Line: A sound comes on the rising breeze
Last Line: Give sweet sounds to the breeze!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Music & Musicians


A SOUND comes on the rising breeze,
A sweet and lovely sound!
Piercing the tumult of the seas
That wildly dash around.

From land, from sunny land it comes,
From hills with murmuring trees,
From paths by still and happy homes --
That sweet sound on the breeze.

Why should its faint and passing sigh
Thus bid my quick pulse leap?
No part in earth's glad melody
Is mine upon the deep.

Yet blessing, blessing on the spot
Whence those rich breathings flow!
Kind hearts, although they know me not,
Like mine there beat and glow.

And blessing, from the bark that roams
O'er solitary seas,
To those that far in happy homes
Give sweet sounds to the breeze!





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